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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"%paste does not retrieve clipboard contents under screen/tmux on OS X","articleBody":"1. `ipython --quick` inside either tmux or screen (bug seen in both screen and tmux, in 0.14.dev 079f8edc2bb42d1c6ce3f0033cacd4030c0bd29a as well as rel-0.13, but not rel-0.12)\n2. Copy text to clipboard\n3. `%paste`\n4. This fails to retrieve text from the clipboard under OS X 10.6.8. In recent ipython the empty paste throws the exception seen below (see #2252)\n\n```\n~ env | grep screen\nTERM=screen\n~ ipython --quick\nPython 2.7.2 (default, Aug  4 2011, 16:59:19)\nType \"copyright\", \"credits\" or \"license\" for more information.\n\nIPython 0.14.dev -- An enhanced Interactive Python.\n?         -\u003e Introduction and overview of IPython's features.\n%quickref -\u003e Quick reference.\nhelp      -\u003e Python's own help system.\nobject?   -\u003e Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.\n\nIn [1]: import IPython ; IPython.__version__\nOut[1]: '0.14.dev'\n\nIn [2]: a = 1  # I used cmd-v to paste this\n\nIn [3]: %paste\n\n\n## -- End pasted text --\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\nIndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)\n\u003cipython-input-3-da94f22893b1\u003e in \u003cmodule\u003e()\n----\u003e 1 get_ipython().magic(u'paste')\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in magic(self, arg_s)\n   2167         magic_name, _, magic_arg_s = arg_s.partition(' ')\n   2168         magic_name = magic_name.lstrip(prefilter.ESC_MAGIC)\n-\u003e 2169         return self.run_line_magic(magic_name, magic_arg_s)\n   2170\n   2171     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in run_line_magic(self, magic_name, line)\n   2093                 args.append(sys._getframe(stack_depth).f_locals)\n   2094             with self.builtin_trap:\n-\u003e 2095                 result = fn(*args)\n   2096             return result\n   2097\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/frontend/terminal/interactiveshell.py in paste(self, parameter_s)\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/core/magic.py in \u003clambda\u003e(f, *a, **k)\n    189     # but it's overkill for just that one bit of state.\n    190     def magic_deco(arg):\n--\u003e 191         call = lambda f, *a, **k: f(*a, **k)\n    192\n    193         if callable(arg):\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/frontend/terminal/interactiveshell.py in paste(self, parameter_s)\n    288             write(\"## -- End pasted text --\\n\")\n    289\n--\u003e 290         self.store_or_execute(block, name)\n    291\n    292     # Class-level: add a '%cls' magic only on Windows\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/frontend/terminal/interactiveshell.py in store_or_execute(self, block, name)\n    151         \"\"\" Execute a block, or store it in a variable, per the user's request.\n    152         \"\"\"\n--\u003e 153         b = self.cleanup_input(block)\n    154         if name:\n    155             # If storing it for further editing\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/frontend/terminal/interactiveshell.py in cleanup_input(self, block)\n    117         # Remove email quotes first.  These must be consistently applied to\n    118         # *all* lines to be removed\n--\u003e 119         b = strip_email_quotes(b)\n    120\n    121         # Split the input into independent sub-blocks so we can later do\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/utils/text.py in strip_email_quotes(text)\n    600             break\n    601     else:\n--\u003e 602         prefix = long_substr(list(matches))\n    603         if prefix:\n    604             strip = len(prefix)\n\n/Users/davison/lib/python/ipython/IPython/utils/text.py in long_substr(data)\n    555                     substr = data[0][i:i+j]\n    556     else:\n--\u003e 557         substr = data[0]\n    558     return substr\n    559\n\nIndexError: list index out of range\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dandavison","@type":"Person","name":"dandavison"},"datePublished":"2012-08-04T22:10:27.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/2253/ipython/issues/2253"}